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You can feel good about putting your computer to work. Two Grid.org projects that worked with the National Foundation for Cancer Research and the University of Oxford cut down research time on cancer treatment projects by as much as five years by screening millions of potential molecules and narrowing down the number that had to be tested in the lab. More than eight million computers have worked on the Grid.org projects. "The outcome of this project is absolutely remarkable," says Franklin C. Salisbury Jr., president of the NFCR.

Researchers are now following up on screensaver results by conducting hands-on lab experiments for a pancreatic cancer treatment. The search for extraterrestrials, however, still continues.